Rebecca

"She's got the three things that matter in a wife: breeding, brains, and beauty."

Children's tears are very near the surface, and come at the first crisis.

'Fashions change so quickly nowadays they may even have altered by the time you get upstairs.'

Any place seemed damp and sinister when it had been uninhabited for a certain time.

If I told you I was thinking about Surrey and Middlesex I was thinking about Surrey and Middlesex. Men are simpler than you imagine, my sweet child.